“An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should… — Helen Cresswell Copy Share Image
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“it’s yours until it makes an appearance in the world. It’s yours in the same way your liver is; you wouldn’t catch… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“My love", she whispered, so low she sounded to Jacques as if she were speaking from the bottom of an abyss, "now… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
“Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n’y a de continuellement bon que l’habitude d’un travail entêté. Il… — Flaubert (how very sad Copy Share Image
I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“At the time, we were told that this was also the area from which up to ninety-eight percent of the opium, and… — Nicholas Irving Copy Share Image
It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
![“Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/762/erasmus-darwin-17186_credit_opium-is-the-only-drug-to-be-rely-d-on-a_368750.jpg)
![“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished…” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/555/terry-eagleton-1660_beckham_f-or-the-most-part-football-these-days-i_303401.jpg)
![“The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the…” quote by John Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fbd/john-coleman-26995_american-civil-war_the-very-same-british-and-american-famil_505210.jpg)
